Publications
Krannert Art Museum has a number of exhibition catalogues for sale. Only a selection is listed here. Please call 217-244-0516 or email kam@illinois.edu for more information.
Under Control
Under Control questions financial intrigue and debacle, government-sponsored spying, preemptive war, and more: an endless stream of news underscores the manipulation of power and resources with consequences for us all. Who controls whom? Who controls what? Where does it leave the rest of us? Despite the heavily-politicized subject matter, the exhibition will present an objective point of view on the power of control as a construct within our society. This exhibition features approximately 30 works, all created within the past 10 years, in a variety of media by artists from surprisingly vast geographic locations.
$25
Krannert Art Museum: Selected Works
Krannert Art Museum: Selected Works represents the first published survey of Krannert Art Museum's (KAM's) encyclopedic collection of art since the museum's opening in 1961. The publication highlights over 150 objects from KAM's permanent collection, spanning ancient through contemporary art. Artwork and objects from diverse artistic traditions, media, and geographies are represented in this 358-page, full-color book.
$39.95
An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and A Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions
An Architect Collects highlights selections from Robert D. Kleinschmidt's private collection of major modern and minimalist artists, such as Josef Albers, Robert Motherwell, and Frank Stella.
$25
Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists
The exhibition addresses various experiences of travel, exile, diaspora, alienation, and integration, feelings of longing and belonging, memories of places and people, encounters with divergent views of sexuality and gender, alternate political understandings of the world, and cultural practices that both divide and unite us.
$20
Blown Away
Blown Away features work in a variety of media by artists expressing an interest in explosions—from the intensity of an impending event to the sensation of the release and the reverberations of the ensuing shockwaves.
$22.50
Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work
Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work presents a carefully chosen selection of the work that she produced during the 1940s and 1950s. Her works were often exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists, and she was associated with many avant-garde artists in New York, including exiled European Surrealists and Dadaists.
$30
Branded and On Display
Branded and On Display examines the work of artists who explore specific strategies of branding and presentation in their responses to this pervasively marketed environment.
$30
Discoveries: African Art from the Smiley Collection
This exhibit showcases a selection of sub-Saharan African sculpture from the collection of Cecilia S. and Irwin Smiley.
$12.50
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection
The collection includes works by prominent American artists such as John Cage, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, but is particularly strong in the area of minimal art, with drawings by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Fred Sandback, using the wide range of productive and analytic possibilities of this medium.
$30
Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics
Out of Sequence explores alternate histories of American comics and suggest some of the limitless possibilities for the medium in the past, present, and future, from early newspaper strips to the Internet and virtual narratives in simulated three-dimensional space.
$25
Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist of Montmarte
This exhibition showcased Krannert Art Museum 's substantial holdings of more than 40 lithographs, posters, and drawings by the French 19th century artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and images by other French artists whose works either prefigured or paralleled Toulouse-Lautrec's artistic concerns.
$20
There are also exhibition posters on sale for $5.
When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child
When We Were Young juxtaposes selected childhood works of preeminent historical artists with modern and contemporary children's drawings to demonstrate their visual richness and inventiveness and to explore the criteria used for assessing prodigious artistic talent in the very young.
$30
